When you go out to go shopping in supermarkets and shopping malls, there is one of the most popular sayings, that is, to buy something. "Something" has been passed down to this day and has become a convention that can refer to a commodity.
During the Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi once asked the students who listened to the lecture on this question, why not call it "buy north and south", and finally gave the answer to a ten-year-old child, what kind of answer did he give?
The Song Dynasty emphasized literature over martial arts, and a group of literary masters emerged, and Zhu Xi was a very special one of them, he was not only a simple writer, but also had a deep attainment in ideology and culture, and was deeply loved by students.
Zhu Xi's academic theories still attract many professionals to follow today, and his books have become important reference books for the imperial examinations of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.
He has a deep thinking at the ideological level, and he disagrees with the pervasive wind of seeking immortals and asking questions in the Great Song Dynasty at that time, and the people do not rely on their own hands, but rely on seeking immortals and worshiping Buddha to seek wealth and immortality for themselves, which is incorrect in his opinion.
He wanted to do something to change the situation. The most essential factor that can change these ideas is education.
To this end, he established the White Deer Cave Academy to impart knowledge to students, hoping to inspire the wisdom of the people and make more and more people realize that seeking immortals and asking questions is not a long-term solution.
With Zhu Xi in charge of the academy, the name naturally went out quickly, and students from all over the country who were eager for a career hoped to get Zhu Xi's guidance, and came from thousands of miles to get his teaching.
There are students and teachers, and the class was opened soon, and Zhu Xi, who was originally full of confidence, quickly sent that it was not a simple matter for him to change the thinking of these people.
These students have long passed the age of enlightenment, and after a long period of study, it is inevitable that they are dogmatic and stubborn, and their thinking has basically been formed.
Zhu Xi, who realized this, immediately woke up, this education still has to start from the baby!
Children whose minds have not yet been fully formed will have a chance to change in the future with guidance. So his academy also began to admit children and impart knowledge and ideas to them.
There is an age difference between children and students, and on the surface, the classes are chaotic. Adults and children sit together, chattering is indispensable, even if adults sit for a long time, there will be distraction, let alone children.
If you don't listen to lectures seriously, you can't concentrate on them, and you can't learn naturally. Zhu Xi is not a rigid teacher, he only knows how to blindly instill knowledge, and he naturally knows that teaching through entertainment will have better results.
On this day, in front of the academy, there was a slender and beautiful girl who walked through the door with a bamboo basket, and her swaying appearance was very cute.
The students are indispensable young and strong young people, and when they are bored listening to the lectures, when they see this beautiful woman passing by in front of the hall, they will inevitably be distracted, which attracts the eyes of a group of students to follow closely.
Zhu Xi was lecturing in front of the stage, but he could always notice the situation of the students in the audience, and when he saw that most of them were staring at the door in distraction, he would naturally follow the line of sight.
When I saw the woman, I knew it. Distraction in the classroom should be criticized, but Zhu Xi also understands that these students are too boring to learn, and it is inevitable that their minds will wander.
After observing the woman for a while, he had a flash of inspiration and asked the students a question, "What is this woman passing by in front of the door, carrying a bamboo basket on her arm?" ”
The students were stunned when they heard this question, what was Zhu Xi's purpose in asking such a question?
Of course, this question is not what Zhu Xi wants to ask the most, he is trying to lead to the next question. A student in the audience analyzed, "Seeing that she was carrying a bamboo basket to the west, she should have gone shopping." ”
Zhu Xi was obviously asking questions with an answer, and this answer was what he wanted, and he then asked the students the next question, "Hey, then why do you always say to go shopping, instead of buying north and south?" ”
After asking, Zhu Xi waited for the students to answer, and the students in the audience looked at each other, this kind of blurted out, they never thought that there was a reason, and naturally they would not think about what the story behind it was.
Many of the students here were well-read poets, and although the question was asked from a strange starting point, some students still answered it.
The phrase "buy something" should have been passed down from the previous dynasty. Datang is prosperous, the fang market is prosperous, and commerce is very prosperous. Each fang market has its own different functions, and the east and west markets are the most prosperous places for commerce.
The topography of Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, determines the north and south directions, which is not suitable for a large number of ** gatherings, and the layout of the entire Chang'an City should also take into account the feng shui problem, so the commercial market is divided into two directions.
This statement is reasonable and convincing, of course, the students have different ideas, and naturally there are different guesses. Some students also believe that it does not necessarily refer to the East City and the West City, but to the two ancient capitals, Chang'an in the east and Luoyang in the west.
These two places are often regarded as the capital of a country in the long river, and over time commerce will naturally prosper, and most of the merchants will travel between these two cities, and the circulation will be more prosperous.
Merchants often went to these two places to do business, and over time they borrowed these two directions to refer to the goods that were bought and sold.
This statement is also very profound, and many people have made sense after hearing it. Zhu Xi is everyone, and he will not be surprised that students can give these two answers.
But he was a little disappointed, because these two answers were too conventional, and they didn't jump out of their already formed ideas at all. Then the students kept coming up with all sorts of theories, either similar to these two or completely nonsense.
Zhu Xi sighed, the students observed the words, and also knew that the answers they gave did not satisfy Zhu Xi, and when they saw him signaling quiet, they sat upright, wanting to listen to the answers given by the teacher.
At this time, they had completely left the beautiful lady just now, and kept thinking about whether there was anything else in their minds.
At this moment, a ten-year-old child stood up and said his thoughts, which surprised Zhu Xi, what kind of interpretation did he give?
This ten-year-old boy is not as knowledgeable as adults, so naturally he does not know what they are talking about. After he stood up, he did not quote scriptures at all, and cut from a historical perspective, but chose an angle that others did not expect.
He replied immaturely, "Doesn't this 'gold, wood, water, fire, and earth' correspond to 'east, west, north, south, and middle', carrying a bamboo basket to buy goods, and those that can be put into the basket are all gold and wood, and water, fire, and earth can't fit it, and gold and wood don't correspond to things." ”
After the child answered, the class fell silent and then a heated discussion broke out, "Yes, that's not how it is!" ”
This child can think of this, which shows that he has been deeply influenced by Zhu Xi's thoughts in the process of learning from Zhu Xi. Zhu Xi was originally a master who integrated Taoist and Buddhist ideas into Confucianism.
For students who have been studying Confucianism since childhood, it is impossible for them to think of the Taoist theory of yin and yang and the five elements.
But now this child has thought of it, which shows that it is completely correct for him to recruit students and accept children as students, which makes Zhu Xi see the hope of the future, and it is even more gratifying to think of it.
Zhu Xi just used this child to teach the students, "Don't be trapped in a fixed thought, have the courage to jump out, absorb the theories of other theories, and integrate the best of each family." ”
Those students who are older than children and have read poetry and books are ashamed of themselves, and they are not as good as a child after reading books for so many years.
Zhu Xi also noticed this, comforted them, and affirmed that the answer they gave before was not wrong and reasonable, but this kid thought of an entry point that they didn't expect, so it was worthy of praise.
After this incident, these students, whose thinking had been solidified, also opened the door to jump out of the stereotype, and they realized that although what they had learned before was good, they were studying hard and lacked the child's spirituality.
From then on, they will be more willing to absorb other ideas, and they will inevitably go to the next level in the future.
This is the result that Zhu Xi wants, he founded the school in the hope that his ideas can be passed on and influence generation after generation, judging from the child's answers, he has achieved a small success.
In this boring class, Zhu Xi vividly led to the development of ideas.
He took the opportunity of the distractions of the students, and the woman passing by the door, to guide the students step by step to consider the philosophical level, which not only drew the attention of the distracted students, aroused the students' discussion and thinking, but also woke up the students present to absorb more ideas in the end.
That's how Zhu Xi's science came about. The most important step from life to academia is to add your own thinking. Ordinary affairs in life, even if they are conventional, should have a **.
This spirit of exploration is the most important factor to support the continuous development of scholarship, rather than studying hard day after day and honing one's spirituality under a fixed structure.
Zhu Xi is the master of Confucianism, but he has never underestimated other ideas, on the contrary, he integrates and integrates and learns from each other's strengths, which is the key to supporting Zhu Xi's fame through the ages.